Jina Suh
Principal Researcher
About
I’m a Principal Researcher in the HUE (opens in new tab) group at Microsoft Research Redmond Lab. I received my PhD from the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington advised by James Fogarty and Tim Althoff. I am a proud alumnus of the Machine Teaching (opens in new tab) group where I grew my interest and passion for HCI and ML.
My current interests lie in the design of technologies and the application of data science and ML for improving mental health and well-being where I work with clinicians to deliver evidence-based interventions, collaborate with product groups to improve workplace wellbeing, or work with large datasets looking at population-level shifts in wellbeing.
I have a master’s degree in UW’s Human-Centered Design and Engineering (opens in new tab) program. Prior to joining MSR, I worked in Xbox for 7 years, interned at MSR for World Wide Telescope (opens in new tab) project, and got my a BA/MS in Physics from Columbia and Harvard where I once aspired to be an experimental astrophysicist and a particle physicist.
Microsoft Research Podcast
Data science and ML for human well-being with Jina Suh
Episode 93 | October 9, 2019 - Using technology to help us improve our health is nothing new: a quick web search returns hundreds of apps and devices claiming to help us get fit, quit smoking, master anxiety or just “find our center.” What is new is a serious cohort of researchers exploring how artificial emotional intelligence, or AEI, could help us understand ourselves better and, when used in concert with human caregivers, enhance our well-being. One of those researchers is Jina Suh, a former Xbox developer who got hooked on research and is now an RSDE in the Human Understanding and Empathy group at MSR, as well as a PhD student in computer science at the University of Washington.